<nettime> Human at the Wheel - Jordan Crandall
▻https://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@mail.kein.org/msg03678.html
A flurry of videos made by Tesla drivers has appeared on YouTube, demonstrating the car’s new Autopilot features. We see the road through the POV of the (male) driver-author, who narrates the scene in voiceover — interpreting what the software is doing. Each clip culminates in a “close call,” with the implication that the software is to blame ("Tesla Autopilot tried to kill me!" reads one headline). In nearly every video, the driver is misusing the technology — a possibility the company had not apparently considered. Aghast at the behavior of these drivers, Elon Musk announced that new constraints will be added to the software “to minimize the possibility of people doing crazy things with it.”